Home Improvement Thread 2: Electric Redo the Loo

Nee Lewman said:
Yeah, for whatever reason our house has two living rooms. It was built in the seventies so i have no idea why other than for partying? Anyhow, the formal living room which is sunken is the record room, in the center of the house. It being a single story ranch house, with a somewhat open floor plan, who needs Sonos or multiple systems? It is real nice having the whole collection right next to the rig.
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Four-level split here and I love having separate living spaces. Open floor plans suck. Too much noise when hosting lots of people since there’s only one real place to gather.
 
folsom_lives said:
Four-level split here and I love having separate living spaces. Open floor plans suck. Too much noise when hosting lots of people since there’s only one real place to gather.
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My original response in retrospect although accurate was poorly phrased, I should have thanked you for your input and left it at that. Thank you for your experiential knowledge, and I appreciate you taking the time to provide your input.
 
Dylanfan253 said:
My fiancée will have people over, and I do want to have Christmas for the family so the food doesn’t suck, all the more reason I need the second living area to keep people from touching my things lol.
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My family (all of them) seem genuinely scared of the stereo. So they don’t touch it.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
Where did you land on for moving? Or you staying put?
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That’s still undecided, but likely stay due to income differential if we move and then lack of job security. I don’t want to have to get two jobs to make as much as I do now. The longer we wait to buy the more likely moving somewhere becomes we could reduce the mortgage enough that my fiancée could pay it on her own salary and I could afford to make less.
 
So I have a tiled room a shower and a towel radiator, but…

the shop ordered the wrong concealed cistern so it doesn’t fit in the cabinet so they’ve had to order a new one. Which means, they can’t conceal it, so they can’t put the worktop on top of it so they can’t sit my sink on top of the worktop and plumb it.

So after 8’days I can finally shower at home again but I’m still using a bucket of water to wash down a toilet and I still have no bathroom sink. Been promised that new cistern is arriving Monday/Tuesday so fingers crossed back in business Tuesday/Wednesday.

Some pics of what’s finished for you all though because I’m proper made up with how it’s coming along!

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Joe Mac said:
So I have a tiled room a shower and a towel radiator, but…

the shop ordered the wrong concealed cistern so it doesn’t fit in the cabinet so they’ve had to order a new one. Which means, they can’t conceal it, so they can’t put the worktop on top of it so they can’t sit my sink on top of the worktop and plumb it.

So after 8’days I can finally shower at home again but I’m still using a bucket of water to wash down a toilet and I still have no bathroom sink. Been promised that new cistern is arriving Monday/Tuesday so fingers crossed back in business Tuesday/Wednesday.

Some pics of what’s finished for you all though because I’m proper made up with how it’s coming along!

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Looks awesome man, really nice job with the design. It wouldn't be a home renovation if something didn't go sideways halfway through... at least it's an easy fix.
 
Mather said:
Looks awesome man, really nice job with the design. It wouldn't be a home renovation if something didn't go sideways halfway through... at least it's an easy fix.
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Thanks! The previous bathroom was the one the builders put in and they were a bunch of cowboys, it was a mess. I’ve needed this done for years but only just really been able to afford it now. So I think all that time thinking and planning kinda meant I knew exactly what I wanted. The salesman in the shop was shocked because I just walked around pointing at things and he didn’t need to upsell or push anything on me 😂
 
Joe Mac said:
Thanks! The previous bathroom was the one the builders put in and they were a bunch of cowboys, it was a mess. I’ve needed this done for years but only just really been able to afford it now. So I think all that time thinking and planning kinda meant I knew exactly what I wanted. The salesman in the shop was shocked because I just walked around pointing at things and he didn’t need to upsell or push anything on me 😂
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Haha that's the way I operate. I go in knowing every single detail and they don't have to do anything. There's been several times I've done so much research that I'm actually explaining aspects of their products that they didn't even know. Helps to have a mildly obsessive brain.
 
Mather said:
Haha that's the way I operate. I go in knowing every single detail and they don't have to do anything. There's been several times I've done so much research that I'm actually explaining aspects of their products that they didn't even know. Helps to have a mildly obsessive brain.
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Yes I have that and I’m a planner big style regardless. I was asking for products he didn’t even know existed!
 
I’m losing my mind trying to get my bedroom windows open as the weather gets warmer. House was built in the mid-50s; I’m having trouble finding info on how windows like these work, or how to fix them.

What seems to happen is the wood frame has grooves on the sides which slide up metal channels. The troublesome windows don’t slide up the channel, but rather push the whole assembly upwards and jam on the upper frame.

All the sites I find in google results give advice for windows painted shut, but that’s obviously not the case here.

Here’s a picture, maybe y’all recognize the style or how to get a window like this to window again:
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Bull Shannon said:
I’m losing my mind trying to get my bedroom windows open as the weather gets warmer. House was built in the mid-50s; I’m having trouble finding info on how windows like these work, or how to fix them.

What seems to happen is the wood frame has grooves on the sides which slide up metal channels. The troublesome windows don’t slide up the channel, but rather push the whole assembly upwards and jam on the upper frame.

All the sites I find in google results give advice for windows painted shut, but that’s obviously not the case here.

Here’s a picture, maybe y’all recognize the style or how to get a window like this to window again:
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Quick update: I had a similarly stuck window on the first floor, checked it from the outside, and it seems the window is stuck to the runner; I didn’t paint them since closing them, but they’re stuck as though they had been painted.
Gotta figure how to shimmy the upstairs one to unstuck without getting up on a ladder (I can, but just don’t wanna)
 
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